A former fashion model, Caroline de Bendern, was while she was pursuing her career in Paris involved in the tumultuous events of May 1968 that a photograph of her went viral. The image of her holding the Vietcong flag - at the height of opposition to the US war against Vietnam - over a sea of young protesters, was reproduced worldwide.
Jean-Pierre Rey was the photographer of the demonstration in the Quartier Latin in Paris, 1968, when Caroline de Bendern holds a Vietnamese flag on the Boulevard Saint-Michel. ©Jean-Pierre Rey/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images.
At the time Caroline de Bendern was, when in New York, dating Lou Reed.
Caroline de Bendern paid dearly for holding the Vietcong flag in public and in the eye of the media. Her grandfather cut her out of his will, which reportedly cost her £7.5m, and her modeling career also suffered. She left Europe to make a film in Africa shortly afterwards.